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" ... the men who exalt the merit of implicit faith are unfit to claim or to enjoy the advantages of science; and he vainly contends that, if they refuse to adore the gods of Homer and Demosthenes, they ought to content themselves with expounding Luke and... "
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Page 462
by Edward Gibbon - 1900
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Gibbon's History of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, repr ..., Volume 2

Edward Gibbon - 1826 - 864 pages
...they ought to content themselves with expounding Luke and Matthew in the churches of the Galilaeans. In all the cities of the Roman world, the education of the youth was intrusted to masters of grammar and rhetoric ; who were elected by the magistrates, maintained at the...
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The Prose Works of John Milton, Volume 2

John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...they ought to content themselves with expounding Iiuke and Matthew in the churches of the Galileans. In all the cities of the Roman world, the education...Julian appears to have included the physicians, and us with our own weapons, and with our own arts and sciences they overcome us. And indeed the Christians...
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The Quarterly educational magazine, and record of the Home and ..., Volume 2

Home and colonial school society - 1849 - 448 pages
...fruits of a like kind. Gibbon, indeed, in a sentence of provoking brevity, tells us (ch. xxii.), that " in all the cities of the Roman world the education of the youth was intrusted to masters of grammar and rhetoric, who were elected by the magistrates, maintained at the...
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The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with ..., Volume 3

Edward Gibbon - 1854 - 504 pages
...they ought to content themselves with expounding Luke and Matthew in the churches of the Galilaeans.90 In all the cities of the Roman world the education of the youth was intrusted to masters of grammar and rhetoric, who were elected by the magistrates, maintained at the...
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The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary ..., Volume 2

John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1871 - 560 pages
...they ought to content themselves with expounding Luke and Matthew in the churches of the Galileans. In all the cities of the Roman world, the education...and distinguished by many lucrative and honourable priviThe edict of Julian appears to have included the physicians, and us with our own weapons, and...
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The Prose Works of John Milton ...: With a Preface, Preliminary ..., Volume 2

John Milton - 1875 - 560 pages
...they ought to content themselves with expounding Luke and Matthew in the churches of the Galilicans. In all the cities of the Roman world, the education...of Julian appears to have included the physicians, anc' us with our own weapons, and with our own arts and sciences they overcome us. And indeed the Christians...
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A Church history

Christopher Wordsworth (bp. of Lincoln.) - 1882 - 390 pages
...Theodoret, iii. 4 ; Aug. de Civ. Dei, xviii. 52 ; Neander, iii. 76. Gibbon says, ch. xxiii. p. 112, " The edict of Julian appears to have included the physicians and professors of all liberal arts." * Theodoret, iii. 3. Ambrose, Epist. 40. Tillemont, vol. vii. art. ix. Jitliarfs professions...
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A Church History, Volume 2

Christopher Wordsworth - Church history - 1883 - 388 pages
...Theodoret, iii. 4; Aug. de Civ. Dei, xviii. 52 ; Neander, iii. 76. Gibbon says, ch. xxiii. p. 112, "The edict of Julian appears to have included the physicians and professors of all liberal arts." — pauperization of Clergy. Cappadocia, Thrace, Italy, Egypt, in the short reign of...
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The Rise and Early Constitution of Universities: With a Survey of Medi[micro ...

Simon Somerville Laurie - Education, Medieval - 1885 - 334 pages
...centres. For, "in all the cities of the Roman world," says Gibbon (chap, xxiii.), " the education of youth was entrusted .to masters of grammar and rhetoric, who were elected by the magistrates, maijjr tained at the public expense, and distinguished by many lucrative and honourable privileges."...
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Origins of the English People and the English Language

Jean Roemer - English language - 1888 - 714 pages
...Chlorus, followed a course of eloquence at Toulouse. In all the cities of Roman Gaul the education of youth was entrusted to masters of grammar and rhetoric,...public expense, and distinguished by many lucrative and honorable privileges.* There are still extant many imperial edicts relating to these public seminaries,...
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